A few weeks ago, on Free Comic Book Day, Bob Bretall came back from his local indie comic shop with about 480 new comics. It was a monster haul, sure, but you have to see it from his perspective.
Take a trip to the basement of Tom Oltmans' Littleton, Colorado home, and you might think, for a second, that you've been transported to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
PUTNAM - Outside Wonderland Comics & River Bottom Records on Saturday morning, more than a dozen comic book enthusiasts lined up outside the Putnam shop to get first dips on the dozens of titles offered as part of Free Comic Book Day.The event, started in 2002 as a promotional effort by the comic book industry, drew in fans from across the age gamut, from veteran collectors to a new generation of readers energized by successful superhero movie franchises.Danielson resident Jonathan Conway,
Op-Ed Contributor By Peter Suderman Mr. Suderman has written about movies for Vox.com, National Review and other publications. His first publication was on the letters page of Amazing Spider-Man
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Modern Hollywood is ruled by franchises, and these days, there's no bigger franchise than the Marvel cinematic universe.
The movie had promise, as it didn't just introduce the Green Lantern, but the entire Green Lantern Corps, including a pre-villain Sinestro, and had an interesting concept for a villain in Parallax. However, with that said, the execution of the movie doomed it.
Nicolas Cage donned a Superman costume, James Cameron would have made a creepy "Spider-Man" movie, and "Mad Max: Fury Road" director George Miller was extremely close to making a "Justice League" movie. Here are six strange superhero movies that almost got made.
She's young, has super powers and is indigenous! This week, a new superhero makes her debut in Marvel Comics' Champion series: Amka Aliyak, alias Snowguard, an Inuit teenager who hails from the town of Pangnirtung, in Nunavut, one of the four regions that comprise the homeland for the Inuit population of Canada.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A new exhibit coming to the Orlando Science Center this summer will give visitors a chance to explore the world of superheroes. Superhero exhibit coming to Orlando Science Center this summer Visitors will have a chance to test their own superpowers Hall of Heroes runs May 26 through Sept.
You could say superheroes saved Hollywood. There was a time, not too long ago, when the future of the movie industry was in question. The internet made illegally downloading movies increasingly easy; home television sets were becoming more and more sophisticated; and streaming services allowed audiences to watch what they wanted when they wanted, bringing a veritable library of movies to consumers' fingertips.